carolinaRN80

Thanks guys. Seems NV may be a good place to be a nurse! Fully staffed, I envy you ? I am considering moving out of state and I really wonder if it's like this everywhere. It seems this is nursing now. Which sucks. Bas22: I feel the Same way. Critical thinking?! Who has time?!?

Hello, I'm well into my first year of nursing. I live in South Carolina where we have no nurse to patient ratio laws. I work on a general med surg floor where we are set up in pods. There are 8 rooms to a pod and we often have 8 Pts to one nurse and one cna has up to 16 Pts. I often leave work feeling like I didn't accomplish anything but throwing meds at Pts. I am always frustrated and mad at the fact that I feel so overwhelmed and stretched thin. So far I have cared for up to 12 Pts a shift, not all at once but w admissions and d/c.i really don't understand how anyone likes this?? I want to know if this is normal? What's your patient to nurse ratio and where are you located? How many Pts do u go through a shift?